The role of regulation on entry: evidence from the Italian provinces

Francesco Bripi

No 932, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of differences in local administrative burdens in Italy in the years preceding a major reform that sped up firm registration procedures. Combining regulatory data from a survey on Italian provinces before the reform (costs and time to start a business) with industry-level entry rates of limited liability firms, I explore the effects of regulatory barriers on entry across industries with different natural propensities to enter the market. Using different specifications the estimates show that lengthier and, to some extent, more costly procedures reduced the entry rate of limited liability firms in sectors with naturally high entry rates. These results also hold when I include measures of local financial development and of efficiency of bankruptcy procedures. Overall, the analysis confirms the view that administrative burdens on new start-ups matter for business creation.

Keywords: entry regulation; entrepreneurship; doing business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 G38 L51 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-law and nep-reg
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Journal Article: The Role of Regulation on Entry: Evidence from the Italian Provinces (2016)
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